Payroll Associate

**Payroll Associate**
**Permanent**
**Based in Portslade ( 3 days in the office a week )**
**£25,000 - £28,000 per annum plus flexible working, parking and further benefits**

Tony Alan Recruitment currently has an exciting and new job opportunity for a Payroll Associate to join a rapidly growing private equity business in the Portslade area on a permanent basis.

You will be joining a business currently going through an exciting period of growth, opportunity, and career development.

**Key Duties**:

- Assist the Payroll Executive to ensure the accurate and timely delivery of the monthly employee payroll, ensuring statutory reporting requirements are met
- Completing payroll processes including tax, NI and statutory elements using the HR System /Accord Payroll system
- Ensure payroll end to end and statutory processes, including SMP, SPP, SSP, RTI, FPS, EPS, Pension auto-enrolment, P11d’s, PSA’s & apprenticeship levy are completed and complied with
- Administer employee benefit deductions within the statutory parameters
- Processing a high volume of payments and deductions onto the HR system for monthly paid employees
- Provide appropriate reports, liaise with external regulatory bodies such as The Pensions Regulator and HMRC as required
- Prepare and post payroll journals
- Assist the HR team to provide accurate HR administration from new starters through to managing leavers, updating records for pay changes & benefits, and ensuring leavers are processed appropriately
- Maintain employee records; ensure that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis; review changes for proper authorisation

**Essential Skills**:

- Working knowledge of payroll calculations and processes for tax, NI and statutory elements
- Experience in payroll end to end statutory processes, including RTI, FPS, EPS, Pension auto-enrolment, apprenticeship levy
- Intermediate experience of using Excel and Word Microsoft packages